I am a scholar of international development, regionalism, global trade, infrastructure, and global science and technology studies. My scholarly agenda is concerned with the political economy of regional integration in southern Africa. My current book project, Assembling a Regional Community: Techno-Utopian Geographies of “Southern Africa” brings together decolonial history, international development, and global science and technology studies in a novel way to reveal the multifaceted relationships, work, expertise and systems involved in the pursuit and production of “the region” as an infrastructuralized imaginary. It expands on my doctoral dissertation, “Assembling a Regional Community: Infrastructuralization, Regional Integration and Triumphalism in Southern Africa”, which I successfully defended in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University in June 2026. My scholarly agenda is broadly concerned with the political economy of regional integration in southern Africa.
At Stanford, I was a Dissertation Fellow at the King Center on Global Development and a Graduate Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences in 2025-26. I was also Susan Ford Dorsey Innovation Africa Fellow at the Center for African Studies in 2024-25. As a doctoral candidate, I designed and taught my own course, “The Anthropology of Global Trade”, for Stanford undergraduates. I have taught several courses in the Department of anthropology including introductory courses for undergraduates, an interdisciplinary ethnography lab for several majors in the social sciences, and introductory seminar for MA and first year PhD students. I have also taught and assisted course development for a Stanford Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE) Introductory seminar and I was a Graduate Residential Associate for VPUE’s Sophomore College, an immersive summer program for Stanford and Oxford Undergraduates. I have been a Fellow at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society and a recipient of Stanford’s Vice Provost for Graduate Education Fellowship. Between 2024 and 2026, I worked at the Center for Global Ethnography at the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at Stanford University where I organized writing workshop for interdisciplinary students across the San Francisco Bay Area including from The University of California, Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, UC San Francisco, and UC San Diego.
I hold a Bachelor of Arts Honours (with distinction) in Geography from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg where I was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. I was recipient of the Stanley P. Jackson Medal awarded by the School of Geography Archaeology, and Environmental Studies to the top graduating student in the geography honours program. My previous research on monuments, infrastructural violence and liberation geographies was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, an internal merit award, and a National Research Foundation Honors Innovation grant from South Africa’s Department of Science & Technology.
